AIMS People for Animals is a nation-wide organization which campaigns for animal rights. It spearheads a popular movement for respecting all life on this earth and is a small but crucial part of India’s growing environment awareness. Started in Mumbai in 1993, the movement has spread all over the country, all its members campaigning vigorously for a change in our attitude towards animals. A chapter of the People for Animals was started in Trivandrum in July 1996. Ahimsa is central to our world-view. Yet millions of animals are battered, mutilated and killed every year, often for no reason at all. Many are condemned to a life time of backbreaking slavery and abandoned or slaughtered in their old age. Large numbers are sacrificed for the sake of religion. Many are exploited by the entertainment industry. Till recently, few noticed these crimes. Few noticed, because animals cannot protest. Even laws framed to protect animals against cruelty are openly flouted. It is not that no one protests. But much more needs to be done in an organized and sustained manner. This is the purpose behind People for Animals. People for Animals believes that things can change only when people from all communities and faiths come together on a platform to try and overhaul attitudes, laws, lifestyles. The media must also be persuaded to see the direct nexus between animal rights and public health. Animals cannot speak for themselves or fight back. They have only one ally- People who are sensitive to their plight. You can be one of them. You can change the way animals are being treated by making your protest heard.
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